method for spliting in chapter position

[Clixo]

this is a long shot but here it goes. i know this has benn brought befoure but i am making it for so long that i want to share.

i allways whant to split my svcd s in the chaper position so what i do is the following i make it with automanted sessions. lets say that i have a movie that i whant to split in 3 cds , ok i open 3 times dvd2svcd and activate internal rip. i chose witch chaperts i whant in the 1 cd ( session one ) session 2 and so on ... after i must specifie diferent folders to save eatch final image , otherwise i would replace the images with newer ones. i also have a makro script that controls when to start the next session after the session before is over and you are in bisness. its a simple method and might brings new ideas to others that whant to split the cds in the exact position. also this metod calculate the bitrate for each image that you whant to make. ok it takes more space in the hard disk but it is compensated with the fact that the image is cutted exactly where you whant.

[ejfudd]

This sounds like a good way to do the splitting at chapter transitions. I am new to dvd2svcd. Could you give more details (and possibly post an example) of the macro used. Thanks.

[DDogg]

You didn't tell the good part :)
How exactly how you automate the three different runs. What tool are you using to do this?

[Clixo]

i am using automate, it is a simple tool that uses key strokes:
here is an example i posted last year befoure dvd2svcd automated the creation of bin and cue files created by i-author, but it didn´t get your atention because ....
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8500&highlight=lazy

[emilius256]

seems interesting, could you please post the macro you are using ?

Thx

[Clixo]

this is the macro but before you can run it there are a few steps you must make :
tree diferent folders with dvd2dvcd :
START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2SVCD.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD2\DVD2SVCD2.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD3\DVD2SVCD3.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
you must activate finalize with run per cd image cdmage soft then you can run it
also the image folder must be diferent for each image !

it works for me !
hope it works for you


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START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVD2SVCD.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD2\DVD2SVCD2.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
START: "E:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD3\DVD2SVCD3.exe","",0,"",0,1,0,""
PROMPT: "choose chapters",0,2,0,0,""
FOCUS: "Dvd2svcd",0,0,0
SEND: 1,"50",~
SEND: 1,"50",~
WAIT: "CDmage",9999,0,1,2,"",0,0
CLOSEWIND: "CDmage",0,0,0
FOCUS: "Dvd2svcd",0,0,0
CLOSEWIND: "DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.7 build 3",0,0,0
SEND: 1,"50",~
DISAPPEAR: 1,"999",1,1,"CDmage",0,2,"",0
FOCUS: "Dvd2svcd2",0,0,0
SEND: 1,"50",~
SEND: 1,"50",~
WAIT: "CDmage",9999,0,1,2,"",0,0
CLOSEWIND: "CDmage",0,0,0
FOCUS: "Dvd2svcd",0,0,0
CLOSEWIND: "DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.7 build 3",0,0,0
SEND: 1,"50",~
DISAPPEAR: 1,"999",1,1,"CDmage",0,2,"",0
FOCUS: "Dvd2svcd3",0,0,0
SEND: 1,"50",~
SEND: 1,"50",~

[emilius256]

Thank you, i'll try soon as possible.

Thanks again
bye.

[emilius256]

It works very well, i have to change a little some timing and add a few things to make it work well on my pc but now it's really ok.

Thanks a lot.

[Clixo]

feel free to share any improvement that you made i will post again the next days some improvements i am making at the moment

[ejfudd]

This is a little off topic but since both clixomano and emilius256
seem to have ripping of selected chapters working I thought I would ask here. Prior to automating the process I wanted to make sure converting chapters works on my system. I tried converting the first (15 or so) set of chapters from a couple of dvd's. In both cases I encountered the same problem.

I have posted the problem elsewhere:

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18972

When I (manually not automated) try to convert the first or middle section of chapters from a dvd the bbMPEG Muxed file is missing the last 10 or so seconds of the last chapter. (these seconds are in the mpv and mp2 files) This does not happen if the end of the movie (credits) is the last chapter. I am not getting a second mpg file with these last seconds they are just lost. Any ideas? Thanks.

[emilius256]

As was already posted in the previos thread, you have to edit the .d2s file, find the line bbMPEGCDSize and put 740 or 800 as size.
The problem is that you choose a cd size in the bitrate tab (for example 800) but in the .d2s file the size is 785 instead of 800.
So the cut is a few second before the real end of the movie and since you choose 1 cd, this few seconds are lost.
Try editing the .d2s file then user Crash Recovery and start from Muxing and Cutting.
If this doesen't work post againg.
Hope this can help you.

Bye.

[ejfudd]

now I understand. I will give it a try. Sorry for being dense...

[emilius256]

Np.

Now i'm making a batch file that automatically (using automate) modify the d2s file and put the right cd size so is not need to modify it manually and then repeat the muxing and cutting again.

Bye.